Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

wbmw,

interesting collection of parts. But regarding:

Just how many design teams do you think AMD has?

I think you may be slightly off base. It does not take a 2 design team to come up with full cache and half cache version of the same chip. Nor does it take 2 design teams to come up with dual core and single core version of a chip. It took a design team to come up with Rev E which enabled DC.

It does take a design team to come up with Rev F, which has various capabilies / options for implementation. The actual implementation is just handed off to another team that implements the mask sets.

As far as design teams are concerned, there is one for K8 refinementL G step (dumb shrink?), H step (K8L?), another one for next gen notebook, and another one for next gen server. Those I would call design teams.

There may be a similarity between Dempsey -> Woodcrest and 90nm -> 65nm Opteron QC, in the time on the market, but Intel has more resources, is more desperate, and has all eggs in one basket as far a NGA, so there is a stronger need for a plan B. 90nm QC Opteron would be a plan A+, which is something AMD is not in a desperate need of.

Joe